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The End of the WarUnion Victory and Tragedy: Positive and Negative Effects of the Civil War

POSITIVE EFFECT: UNION WON!✤ Appomattox Court House

✤ Lee surrenders to Grant

✤ Lee encourages Confederacy to accept defeat

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Effects of Civil War: Positive

What were the positive effects?

1. Union was secure

2. Federal government grew

3. Freedom to millions of African Americans

4. First war to reflect technology of Industrial Revolution

NEGATIVE EFFECT: # Dead

✤620,000 died

Negative Effects….

✤ Bitterness remained on both sides

✤ South lost struggle for independence

✤ South lost cotton trade with England

✤ Southern economy DESTROYED

✤ Union armies DESTROYED Southern land

✤ Southerners feared North seek revenge

What was Lincoln’s view of effects of Civil War?

Negative Effect: Lincoln’s Assassination

✤ John Wilkes Booth

✤ April 14th 1865

✤ Watching “Our American Cousin” at Fords Theatre

✤ Invited Grant but Grant declined for personal reasons

Lincoln’s Death

✤ Died of complications related to the gun shot

✤ 7:22 AM April 15th 1865

✤ Surgeon Charles Leale

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The Conspirators

✤ John Wilkes Booth, killed after he refused to surrender

✤ Lewis Powell to assassinate Sec of State William Seward - gun misfires and fails

✤ George Atzerodt to assassinate Andrew Johnson - decides at the last minute not to go through with it

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Lewis “Paine” Powell tries to assassinate Secretary of State

Seward

The Trial

✤ Military Tribunal

✤ Everyone with any connection to Booth was arrested

✤ All primary conspirators found guilty

✤ Mary Surratt, mother of one of the conspirators, was first woman executed in the US

NOW WHAT?

✤ HOW DO WE RECOVER FROM THE DESTRUCTION? What do we do?